...but is there a meaning behind the lettering on the warm-ups the guys on the bench are wearing? "WE ON" stands for what?

Though it may come off as sounding like an "excuse", my ignorance can be blamed on the fact I pay relatively little attention to Michigan Basketball until around the first of December. Not that I don't pay attention to Michigan Hoops in November, but it definitely takes a back seat to Michigan Football until after the Michigan-Ohio State game. There is just not enough time to read everything on the MGoBlog, so I skip many of the basketball threads during the non-conference portion of the basketball season. And I suspect there are many others that do, too.

I had heard what the meaning was previously, but couldn't remember it. Had heard something similar about the fuse box as well. Hopefully everyone's switches are on for this next stretch coming up. I include Northwestern because even though we blew them out last time, they didn't have Reggie Hearn and that could add a new layer to the game.

The phrase definitely was a rap lyric in quite a few songs before it ever had any special meaning to the bball team. There's no chance that's a coincidence. When I heard the fusebox schtick last night I just figured that was the cheesy meaning one of the coaches thought of really qucikly so they didn't have to admit the team had a Lil Wayne quote on their warmup shirts.

Wow, very nice of you to stereotype grammatical deficiencies and/or differences with such a wonderful word. Alas, Ebonics is not very politically correct, as it is a combination of the words ebony and phonics and was thusly a word born by ignorance from its very onset. If you must ridicule this particular and popular vernacular, please call it by it's more accepted term, which is AAVE (why any word for it is even needed is beyond me).

Also, while we're on the topic of proper English, "Im" is not a word. I believe you meant "I'm." Lastly, "you," in the context you used it in, is a pronoun, and as such, does not need to be capitalized. That is unless "Thank You" is strictly your comment's title, which would then in turn make "for sharing" horribly incorrect on multiple levels.

You're absolutely correct (and I think barber shops are the only thing keeping Ebony magazine in business). While it was created much earlier, the term was not really widely known or used until the 90's, so at the time people finally became aware of the word, it immediately came under scrutiny. So to revise myself, unless you're still living in the 80's or earlier, it's an ignorant term to use.

I thought, "WTH? Adidas strikes again." Now, I'm disappointed that the shirts are out-of-stock at M-Den. I want to order one in black, and grammar police be damned. I think the staff, players, and Adidas did a great job on these shirts. This team certainly "operates n-sync," and it's fun watching them play.

I was actually curious about this, so thanks for sharing the discovery. I think the shirts started appearing sometime around Thanksgiving but I was always curious as to where this came from. Both the slogan and the fusebox idea combine for a pretty cool way to instill team focus and get everyone working towards a common goal both in practice and in games. As we saw today in the polls and indeed throughout the season, the focus is obviously reaping rewards.

I was watching the game last night while listening to the audio on Mgoblue and Matt Shepard claimed that the WE stood for Wolverine Excellence (Integrity, Unity, Passion, Diligence, and Appreciation, which you can see on the poster at the 2:19 mark of the Bacari Alexander BTN The Journey video) and the On just meant On. So basically meaning if the team follows those five things they will be ON...

I really hope the people who are hating on this are not in any sort of leadership position of any kind. Most organizations, including sports teams, have sayings or acronyms they hold own to as a rallying point. This wasn't forced on them by Adidas, this was teamwork at its finest.

About this team is coach "cheese". His tweets and metaphors are like weak s---talk and painfully cheesy. I am hopeful its tongue jn cheek. As long as players like him I don't really care but recent exposure is kind of putting coach Bacari out front on btn etc. Rest is all good.

I thought ebonics, atleast at first, was a way to define African American Vernacular English without the negitive conentation of Nonstandard Negro English. To get recognized exceptence for the language that a great deal of people speak on a daily basis. But Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak 'em...leg 'er down a smack 'em yak 'em